Embrace Divinity One Day At A Time

Be welcomed~ and Be Warned.... I have not always had an easy life. It has been a very long time coming that this website and these words were brewing in the Cauldron of Cerridwyn, the Cauldron of Making. I took a huge side step off the stage of public life to heal and honestly to hide a bit too. That decision was a long time making and overdue for my well being and sanity. Although years of isolation mayhaps drew a bit of sanity into the mix. One day I shall flesh out my life story and my own wounds and battle stories but for now this will be a brief hello from the depths of mid life and my new friend menopause. Many things have changed for me and life here at Ravenwyck in the last several years since my disappearance and with change comes transformation into, hopefully, a beautiful butterfly. There were days and even months I thought that I would be stuck in that cocoon fighting to even see a glimmer of hope for a future that would allow me to re enter the world safely. So.... I will say this~ without support, even one healthy person, you may not succeed in getting out so readily. Like a cocoon, we need the right elements, temperatures and sets of circumstances to be nurtured, protected and immersed in a safe space to grow from the turbulence we are surrounded by. If there is not the right support for the situation at hand then unhealthy paths and perhaps destruction can ensue. I did not always have support, not for lack of reaching out, as I did many times to those I trusted. But for those I trusted my vulnerability with were either unwilling or unable to help. Quite frankly they never really responded in turn after I reached out to them, so I speculate on their silence.

So, I have always been the one there for everyone else's needs and issues, the care giver, the healer, the Priestess...always, which without a support for beings like myself we can fall ill from all the giving and not enough nurturing cycling back in balance. I have lost many close loved ones in my life at a young age, those that were my elders, nurturers and cheer leaders, so I have been on my own for many years. You never quite understand what a nurturer does for you until you are alone and without their love and kindness. I was always grateful to have these loving people around me and it has been hard to find those to replace them, if that is even a possibility? I have hope. I learned how to nurture myself through the techniques, meditations and tools that I have shared with so many for over 25 years of being a Spiritual mentor and healer/giver. I have done the best I can with those paths of healing and self support but sometimes it will become not enough. I entered into menopause in November 2021 officially. This means that at Samhuinn my last moon cycle came and went, I entered menopause. It is a time of great change physically, mentally and neurologically. Menopause is unique to each woman, no two transformations will be alike. But one thing is for certain, every woman will face menopause if she lives to that time in her life. It can be naturally with the turning tide of hormonal levels, medically from an induced hormone replacement or from a surgical removal of reproductive hormones. It is something half the population of humans may live to face but we are so undereducated under supported in this life event. So, we'll get into those rabbit holes another time. My point is we go through 'something' and that may be defined differently and uniquely to the woman telling her story. And so in the writings and entries that will come after this I will try to share an honest and very raw telling of my story and many more stories there and back again ;) In the meantime....You are Beautiful and always #BeMost ExcellentToEachOther

With Love, Truth and Magic, Madame Aine